Nat Med · 2018

Understanding the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) for effective therapy

Binnewies M, Roberts EW, Kersten K, Chan V, Fearon DF, Merad M, Coussens LM, Gabrilovich DI, Ostrand-Rosenberg S, Hedrick CC, Vonderheide RH, Pittet MJ, Jain RK, Zou W, Howcroft TK, Woodhouse EC, Weinberg RA, Krummel MF.

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  • Binnewies MDepartment of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • Roberts EWDepartment of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • Kersten KDepartment of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • Chan VUCSF Immunoprofiler Initiative, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • Fearon DFCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
  • Merad MPrecision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
  • Coussens LMDepartment of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
  • Gabrilovich DIThe Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Ostrand-Rosenberg SDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • Hedrick CCDivision of Inflammation Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, USA.
  • Vonderheide RHDepartment of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Pittet MJCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Jain RKEdwin L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Zou WDepartment of Surgery, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Howcroft TKDivision of Cancer Biology, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • Woodhouse ECDivision of Cancer Biology, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • Weinberg RAWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. weinberg@wi.mit.edu.
  • Krummel MFDepartment of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. matthew.krummel@ucsf.edu.
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Tariq Patel

Rigor 4/5Novelty 3/5Impact 2/5Reprod. 2/5

Nice but incremental.

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Noor Smith

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Interesting idea, small sample.

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Tariq Sato

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Great figures and clear story.

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Liam Khan

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Replication is unclear to me.

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Pablo Silva

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Replication is unclear to me.

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Noor Mueller

Rigor 5/5Novelty 5/5Impact 3/5Reprod. 5/5

Interesting idea, small sample.

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Ravi Smith

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Important contribution to the field.

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Tom Brown

Rigor 5/5Novelty 3/5Impact 1/5Reprod. 4/5

Nice but incremental.

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Eva Kim

Rigor 2/5Novelty 1/5Impact 3/5Reprod. 1/5

Replication is unclear to me.

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Alex Lee

Rigor 2/5Novelty 5/5Impact 3/5Reprod. 3/5

Nice but incremental.